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hwix
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 Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 1:13 am Post subject: [SOLVED] Hardware clock keeps acting weird |
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I installed Gentoo on my laptop and while setting it up I noticed that the system
time and hardware time were different. I decided to use chronyd to sync my
system but it gives me the wrong time. I set my hardware clock time in my
laptops BIOS but it still doesn't show up properly when using chronyd
in my system.
When using Windows on the same machine the time works just fine and isn't
giving me the wrong values so I know my BIOS isn't the issue.
In the file | Code: | | /etc/conf.d/hwclock |
I set
and it still keeps giving me the error. I tried to change it to UTC but to no
avail.
Any solutions on how to make sure my Gentoo system is using the correct
hardware clock time I set in my laptop's BIOS?
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sublogic
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| Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 3:11 am Post subject: Re: Hardware clock keeps acting weird |
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| hwix wrote: | I installed Gentoo on my laptop and while setting it up I noticed that the system
time and hardware time were different. I decided to use chronyd to sync my
system but it gives me the wrong time. |
Can you be more specific ? What's wrong with the time ?
| Quote: | In the file | Code: | | /etc/conf.d/hwclock |
I set
and it still keeps giving me the error. I tried to change it to UTC but to no
avail. |
"local" is probably correct, because you dual-boot Windows, but: did you restart the hwclock service ?
Can you post the output of this, run as root ? | Code: | | # date; hwclock --show; file /etc/localtime |
I get: | Code: | Thu Nov 21 22:04:07 EST 2024
2024-11-21 22:04:07.003050-05:00
/etc/localtime: symbolic link to ../usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York |
so my hardware and system clocks match.
(You only need root for the hwclock command.) |
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hwix
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| Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 1:32 pm Post subject: Re: Hardware clock keeps acting weird |
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| sublogic wrote: | | hwix wrote: | I installed Gentoo on my laptop and while setting it up I noticed that the system
time and hardware time were different. I decided to use chronyd to sync my
system but it gives me the wrong time. |
Can you be more specific ? What's wrong with the time ?
| Quote: | In the file | Code: | | /etc/conf.d/hwclock |
I set
and it still keeps giving me the error. I tried to change it to UTC but to no
avail. |
"local" is probably correct, because you dual-boot Windows, but: did you restart the hwclock service ?
Can you post the output of this, run as root ? | Code: | | # date; hwclock --show; file /etc/localtime |
I get: | Code: | Thu Nov 21 22:04:07 EST 2024
2024-11-21 22:04:07.003050-05:00
/etc/localtime: symbolic link to ../usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York |
so my hardware and system clocks match.
(You only need root for the hwclock command.) |
I see where my problem was, I didn't symlink my to | Code: | | /usr/share/zoneinfo/ |
properly.
I did that now and after running chronyd my system time works just fine.
Thank you for your help!
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Goverp
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| Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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hwix,
You probably will want to leave things alone now the clock is working, but in general it's better to set the system clock to UTC and adjust Windows and Linux to handle that. They will convert to local time for display, assuming your version of Windows isn't too old to support it. That way you avoid weird things happening when daylight savings time starts and finishes.
Details of the Windows settings are in the troubleshooting section of the wiki.
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